Shedding Light on Inter-Individual Variability of Olfactory Circuits in Drosophila

K Rihani, S Sachse - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Inter-individual differences in behavioral responses, anatomy or functional properties of
neuronal populations of animals having the same genotype were for a long time …

Mechanisms of variability underlying odor-guided locomotion

L Tao, V Bhandawat - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Changes in locomotion mediated by odors (odor-guided locomotion) are an important
mechanism by which animals discover resources important to their survival. Odor-guided …

Precise quantification of behavioral individuality from 80 million decisions across 183,000 flies

B de Bivort, S Buchanan, K Skutt-Kakaria… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Individual animals behave differently from each other. This variability is a component of
personality and arises even when genetics and environment are held constant. Discovering …

Development under predation risk increases serotonin-signaling, variability of turning behavior and survival in adult fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster

T Krama, M Munkevics, R Krams… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The development of high-throughput behavioral assays, where numerous individual animals
can be analyzed in various experimental conditions, has facilitated the study of animal …

Oviposition experience affects oviposition preference in Drosophila melanogaster

J Otárola-Jiménez, N Nataraj, S Bisch-Knaden… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Learning, memorizing, and recalling of potential ovipositing sites can influence oviposition
preference. Classical conditioning experiments have shown that vinegar flies can learn the …

Learning is a fundamental source of behavioral individuality

R Manna, J Brea, GV Braga, A Modirshanechi, I Tomić… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Genetic determinism of behavior supposes that behaviors are fundamentally defined by
genetics. However, behaviors are also modified by development, environment, and learning …

Ribose-cysteine and levodopa abrogate Parkinsonism via the regulation of neurochemical and redox activities in alpha-synuclein transgenic Drosophila …

OK Idowu, AA Oremosu, OO Dosumu, AA Mohammed - Fly, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Parkinson's disease (PD), the most prevalent type of parkinsonism, is a
progressive neurodegenerative condition marked by several non-motor and motor …

Reduced Insulin Signaling Targeted to Serotonergic Neurons but Not Other Neuronal Subtypes Extends Lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster

N Dravecz, T Shaw, I Davies, C Brown… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Reduced Insulin/IGF-like signaling (IIS) plays an evolutionarily conserved role in improving
longevity and some measures of health-span in model organisms. Recent studies, however …

The role of Drosophila melanogaster in neurotoxicology studies: Responses to different harmful substances

MMM Dahleh, M Prigol - Advances in Neurotoxicology, 2023 - Elsevier
Experimentation with invertebrates has contributed to developing new models of study in
neurotoxicology, emerging as an alternative to the use of mammals and other vertebrates. Of …

[PDF][PDF] Behavioral individuality is a consequence of experience, genetics and learning

R Manna, J Brea, GV Braga, A Modirshanechi, I Tomic… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Genetic determinism of behavior supposes that behaviors are fundamentally defined by
genetics 1–3. However, behaviors are also modified by development 4, environment 5, 6 …